Chapter 156: The Indestructible Stone Men

"Hmph!"

Seeing the stone men surging toward him, Taiyi let out a cold huff.

The Chaos Bell suspended above his head immediately slammed into the nearest stone man.

The might of Mount Buzhou was locked down by the Zhou Tian Star Formation, so he could fight without restraint.

In the face of absolute strength, numbers were of little use.

He was at the Peak Primordial Golden Immortal stage, and the Innate Supreme Treasure in his palm, the Chaos Bell, had already been completely refined.

A mere thousand stone men—could they really be as special as Tian Yuan? Dong! With a dull thud, the silver stone man was casually knocked flying by him, crashing into Mount Buzhou with a boom.

But the very next second, Taiyi's expression shifted slightly, his eyes filled with astonishment.

The stone man jumped up; its right arm was gone, and its shoulder and half its chest were covered in cracks, its face contorted in pain.

In Taiyi's view, taking a direct hit from his Chaos Bell should have shattered the body, if not killed it outright.

The Chaos Bell had actually only shattered one of the opponent's arms, and crucially, the sound it made was still so full of vigor.

"Hoo!" Donghuang Taiyi drew in a light breath; the stone man's physical body was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Yet it was only at the late Hunyuan Golden Immortal stage, a realm even lower than his own, and with the Chaos Bell fully refined, its power had increased significantly.

Logically speaking, this casual strike, even if it couldn't kill the opponent, should have shattered its body and left it with no power to fight again.

These stone men, like Tian Yuan, all had incredibly powerful physical bodies.

But before the shock in his eyes could fade, Taiyi's gaze suddenly constricted again.

He saw silver light weaving across the stone man's right arm in the distance, and in an instant, a brand-new arm formed, while the cracks on its body healed in a flash.

The stone man let out an angry roar and charged at him, its momentum no weaker than before.

This... this is impossible!!!

Taiyi's eyes were filled with disbelief as the Great Sun Golden Flame erupted from the Chaos Bell, smashing into another stone man on the right.

With a powerful strike, that stone man was also sent flying.

Its entire chest exploded, and its form was nearly severed in two.

But just like before, the stone man with the shattered chest jumped out, wailing and glaring at him in anger.

In the time it took to draw a breath, gray light surged from the gray stone man's chest, and it instantly recovered as before.

It was actually just like the previous stone man; its injuries healed in the blink of an eye.

Taiyi stood stunned for a moment, unable to react.

This was a direct hit from the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell; without hundreds of thousands or millions of years of quiet cultivation, recovery should be impossible.

Yet these stone men healed their injuries in the blink of an eye.

In all his years of cultivating the Dao and traveling the Primordial Land, he had never seen such a bizarre thing.

With a trembling face, he did not hesitate, and the Chaos Bell above his head rang out with "Dang! Dang!" sounds as he unleashed it repeatedly.

Amidst the banging sounds, one stone man after another was blasted away, only to immediately pounce back.

Not far away, Di Jun also discovered this strange occurrence, his face filled with disbelief.

But facing the swarm of incoming stone men, he had no time to think.

Rolling Great Sun Golden Flames surged, sweeping toward the stone men rushing in from all sides.

Within the golden flames, the stone men showed no fear, their burly figures darting forward, completely indifferent to the injuries on their bodies.

In the blink of an eye, Di Jun and Taiyi, who had landed on Mount Buzhou, were surrounded by a dense mass of stone men.

With a rumbling sound, figures were thrown out from time to time, only to immediately rejoin the fray.

Kunpeng, who was a step behind in the air, stared down with wide eyes, his expression full of horror.

"This is impossible, impossible!!! How could there be so many bizarre stone men!" Kunpeng muttered to himself, his expression becoming somewhat dazed.

He had originally thought that the Demon Court had refined the Zhou Tian Star Formation and that the two Demon Emperors had greatly increased in strength, so they would surely take down Tian Yuan in one fell swoop; he had not expected such an accident in that space.

He had only just cut off two corpses, yet over a thousand late-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal stone men had jumped out of the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space.

More importantly, the attacks of the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell, could not even injure them. He had taken several hits from the Chaos Bell before, especially at the end of the Dragon Han First Tribulation.

Taiyi's strike at the foot of Mount Buzhou had forced him into seclusion in Beiming for hundreds of thousands of years to heal his injuries.

Yet these stone men who had suddenly jumped out could ignore the attacks of the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell? Kunpeng had no idea how to explain what he was seeing. Was this Tian Yuan's foundation? Watching the two Demon Emperors completely submerged by the stone men, Kunpeng dared not step forward.

Just by glancing at them, he could tell that besides being bizarre, these stone men had terrifying physical bodies.

Could the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space be Tian Yuan's birthplace?

Through the passage woven with starlight, he saw a towering divine mountain standing tall, surrounded by rolling Mysterious Yellow Qi.

Aside from seeing two golden long dragons in the Eastern Land, he could not see anything else clearly.

However, in the sky to the south of the divine mountain, he saw the ten Crown Princes of the Demon Court, but he dared not enter.

Tian Yuan had not yet moved, and Kunpeng did not know if there were more stone men inside.

His cultivation was not as profound as Di Jun's or Taiyi's; if he were surrounded by the stone men, he would be unable to escape.

With these thoughts racing through his mind, Kunpeng hurriedly grabbed a Star Banner from the side and shook it violently, the starlight on it clearly surging.

Baize and the others in the air also saw the scene below, and in addition to their shock, they all exerted their full strength to activate the Star Banners at their sides.

Di Jun and Taiyi were the eyes of the Zhou Tian Star Formation; the more Star Power they channeled, the stronger the power gathered on the two Demon Emperors would naturally be.

Under the current circumstances, this was the only way they could help.

The members of the Demon Court were trembling in their hearts, and Hongyun, Houtu, and the others were also staring at the distance in a daze.

In that massive battle circle, severely injured stone men were thrown out from time to time, only to rush back in with fierce momentum in the blink of an eye.

One stone man even had its entire body shattered, yet it only took a little more time to recover as if nothing had happened.

They had entered the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space and seen these stone men, but even Houtu had not expected them to have such abilities.

Hongyun opened his mouth wide and asked in a daze: "Brother Daoist, how... how are these stone men so strange?"

He was still thinking of lending the All-Heaven Celebration Cloud to Tian Yuan to use it to withstand Taiyi's Chaos Bell.

Who would have known that these stone men who jumped out would completely drag down Di Jun and Taiyi.

Looking at the current situation, it is likely not so easy for the two of them to break free.

With over a thousand immortal stone men at the late stage of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, even with the suppression of their Essence Refining Stage and the advantage of their magic treasures, the two of them could achieve nothing.

"They are manifestations of the laws, possessing immortal bodies!" Tian Yuan responded indifferently, without providing much introduction.

These stone men are all manifestations of the laws within the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, and in the final analysis, they are an extension of the abilities of Mount Buzhou.

Relatively speaking, they are truly in an invincible position while on Mount Buzhou.

Unless Di Jun and Taiyi have the ability to crush the laws, or Mount Buzhou collapses, there is simply no way to kill these fellows.

"Im-immortal bodies?" Gonggong's facial muscles twitched slightly, and the Great Witches beside him, such as Houtu and Xingtian, also wore strange expressions.

Back when Tian Yuan first captured them, the few of them had been beaten by the stone men more than once.

Although they have now accepted Tian Yuan, everyone still remembers the stone men who bullied them.

Although these stone men all look exactly the same, the colors on their bodies are still very easy to distinguish.

The few of them were still thinking that once their strength grew in the future, they would definitely have to get some payback.

Now, having heard Tian Yuan's words, how could they still dare to harbor such thoughts?

They had previously only thought their physical bodies were tough; they never expected them to be immortal bodies—how could one even fight that?

"Brother Dao, your methods are truly admirable!" Hongyun cupped his hands, his face full of respect, though his heart grew increasingly curious about Tian Yuan's identity.

The fact that these fellows are not other living beings, but are all stone men, is enough to explain many things.

Even as the Humanity Lord, he does not possess such means, yet Tian Yuan has mastered them with ease; Mount Buzhou still hides many secrets.

Houtu did not speak; her gaze turned toward the passage where starlight intertwined at the peak of Mount Buzhou, and she vaguely had some guesses.

It was just that when she looked at Di Jun and Taiyi, who were surrounded by the stone men, she felt some confusion in her heart.

What exactly is the relationship between the Demon Court and that person in the Purple Heaven Palace? (End of chapter)